Ticket strip and ticket



1949 B. H. FREEDMAN 9 TICKET STRIP AND TICKET Fil ed May 25, 1945 ,"T 4 Y W z l PALADIUM V I I 3@ FALADIUM M64324 If i 5 T E] 5 g 5 U 6 PALADIUM A Abb4325 2 i 30 a 6 PALADIUM 1 PALADIUM [h 14664526 5 I I 3@ 5 7 Al=64326 /g y f PALADIUM //6 PA LADIUM INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Dec. 20, 1949 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1 Claim.

This invention relates to an improved ticket and ticket strip particularly adapted for use as a theater admission ticket and for use with a ticket dispensing machine.

Among the objects of the present invention, it is aimed to provide an improved ticket strip and ticket for use with a ticket dispensing machine in which the ticket strip has rectangular openings, more particularly rectangular oblong openings to expedite the feeding or discharging advance of a ticket strip through a ticket dispensing machine and in turn to serve as, or cooperate with, the demarkation or demarkations defining the division or divisions between successive ticket unit areas and also to facilitate dividing the successive ticket unit areas from one another when desired.

Specifically, it is an object of the present invention to provide an improved ticket strip and ticket adapted as a theater admission ticket, having parallel stub areas with a longitudinally extended weakened line and rectangular openings formed along the divisions between successive ticket unit areas to serve as and cooperate with the demarkation or demarkations defining the v,

one another and/ or of such size that the position of the ticket strip in a ticket dispensing machine can with facility be determined to avoid being fed either upside down or in the wrong direction.

These and other features, capabilities and advantages of the invention will appear from the subjoined detail description of specific embodiments thereof illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a fragmental plan view of one embodinent of a ticket strip having parallel stub areas;

Fig. 2 is a fragmental plan view of another embodiment of a ticket strip having parallel stub areas;

Fig. 3 is a fragmental plan view of a third embodiment of a ticket strip having parallel stub areas;

Fig. 4 is a perspective of a feed roller having one type of projections that can cooperate with a ticket strip made according to the present invention;

2 roller than can cooperate with a ticket strip made according to the present invention;

Fig. 7 is a perspective, partly in section, of another form of feed roller that can cooperate with a ticket strip made according to the present invention;

Fig. 8 is a perspective of a narrow width ticket strip made according to the present invention and fanfolded;

Fig. 9 is a fragmental plan view of a narrow width ticket strip made according to the present invention.

According to the embodiment shown in Fig. 1, there is provided a ticket strip I having parallel stub areas 2 and 3 defined from one another by the longitudinally extending weakened line 4, preferably perforated and provided with transversely extending demarkations to define the successive ticket unit areas 5, 6 and 1 from one another. The transversely extending demarkations according to this embodiment consist of the printed line 11 interrupted by the rectangular oblong opening 8 in the stub area 2 and the rectangular oblong opening 9 in the stub area 3. This printed line 11 is furthermore interrupted by the round opening H) at the intersection of the line H with the weakened line 4. Furthermore, the printed line Tl terminates in the half-round recesses H and I2.

Thestub areas 2 and 3 preferably are optically distinguished from one another by some marking, such as color, as shown in Patent No. 2,238,724, dated April 15, 1941. In the present instance, the stub area 2 is illustrated as red in color and the stub area 3 as White in color. The marking indicating the color red preferably extends partway beyond the weakened line i into the stub area 3, so that when a ticket is divided into its respective stub areas and the stub area 3, as an instance, is retained by the ticket taker, the accounting department may determine by the color alone as to the cost or type of ticket that was sold. By means of so marking the respective stub areas, the cheaper priced tickets for the morning show may have one color, as an instance blue, for the stub area 2; the early afternoon show have another color, as an instance red, for the stub area 2; and the evening show have still another color, as an instance green, for the stub area 2.

The ticket strip I3 shown in Fig. 2 distinguishes from the ticket I shown in Fig. 1 primarily in omitting the transversely extending printed line H. Otherwise, the pin receiving openings l4 and I5 distinguish from the pin receiving openings 8 and 9 of the embodiment shown in Fig. 1 in that the pin receiving opening I4 is definitely shorter than the pin receiving opening l5 so as to facilitate positioning the ticket strip I3 in a predetermined relation of the printed matter and thereby practically prevent the ticket being fed either upside down or in the wrong direction.

In the embodiment shown in Fig. 3, the ticket strip l6 distinguishes primarily from the ticket strip l shown in Fig. 1 in that the guide recesses H and I2 are omitted, and the feed pin receiving openings 22 and 23 differ in width, the feed pin receiving opening 22 being shorter than the feed pin receiving opening 23.

Preferably as indicated in all three embodiments, the longitudinally extending weakened line 4 is on center, that is, provides a wider stub area 3 that is wider than the stub area 2. The reason for this is that the stub area 3 may have more indicia on it than the stub area 2, particularly if it is intended to be retained by the theater for accounting purposes or the like. When the ticket strips as shown in these embodiments are provided with rectangular oblong pin receiving openings, they can cooperate with an advancing means having comparatively short plane surface feed pins or projections. In Fig. 4, there is illustrated a feeding roll I! having two projections l8 and IS, the front or advanced faces 23 of which extend substantially radial to the feed roll 53 while the rear faces 2| may be arcuate as shown in Fig. 5. These projections l8 and !9 will of course be shaped to conform to the openings in the ticket strip being advanced. If the openings are substantially equal in length as shown in Fig. 1, then the projections I8 and i9 will be substantially equal in length.

If, however, the opening I4 is shorter than the opening l5, then the projection to cooperate with the opening I4 should be shorter than the pro- A jection cooperating with the opening i5.

When the tickets are provided with such narrow elongated pin receiving openings having plane advance edges, as distinguished from the circular pin receiving openings heretofore extensively used, it has been found in actual practice that the ticket strip can be fed much faster than with the round feed pins heretofore used. Obviously with this type of opening, the projections, as an instance the projections 18 and IE, will start advancing the ticket strip 1 immediately that the advancing faces 20 engage the front edge of the pin receiving openings 8 and 9. When round feed pins are used, preferably slightly tapering, the initial entrance of the feed pin into a circular opening, while engaging the ticket, mainly serves to guide the pin into the opening without effecting an advance movement, the advance or feeding motion in such cases does not occur until the pin is fully positioned in the pin receiving opening. With a plane surface of a projection such as the faces 20 of the projections is and IS, the effective advance or feeding action begins immediately that the projections l8 and i9 engage the advance edge of the openings such as the openings 8 and 9.

When the ticket strip is provided with end recesses such as the recess H and [2, the feed roller such as the feed roller 24 may also be provided with guide pins 25 and 25 to register with the openings H and I2 and aid in properly guiding the strip i. It has also been found that projections such as the projections 21 and 28 on the feed roller 29 shown in Fig. 7 can be used to advantage. The projections 21 and 28 are sub- 4 stantially rectangular in cross section. It will of course be necessary that these projections 21 and 28 be less in width than the pin receiving openings.

It is of course also obvious that a ticket strip made according to the embodiment illustrated in Fig. 1 will facilitate proper positioning of the ticket since the pin receiving opening 8 is nearer to the adjacent outer edge of the strip l than the pin receiving opening 9 is adjacent to the edge of the strip adjacent to it. According to this feature of the invention, either by providing pin receiving openings that have different sizes as illustrated in Fig. 2 or by providing pin receiving openings having different positions relative to the outer edges of the ticket or by a combination of both, the proper positioning of a ticket strip in a ticket dispensing machine may be facilitated.

In the embodiment shown in Fig. 8, there is illustrated a single width ticket of the type extensively used today. The strip 38 shown in Fig. 8 has a ticket unit area 3| about twice as lon as it is wide and the successive ticket unit areas are defined from one another, if at all, by a transversely extending demarkation 32, such as a printed or indented line, which is interrupted by a rectangular oblong feed pin opening 33. If the feed pin opening 33 corresponds in size to the feed pin opening 9 of the strip 1, then a narrow ticket strip 30 may be dispensed by the same feed pin rollers as used for the double width ticket, in which case only one set of projections, as for instance the projections l9, alone will cooperate with the feed pin openings 33.

Preferably when fanfolding the strip 30, as is also the case with a strip made according to the embodiment shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the strip is folded about midway between the demarka tions defining the successive ticket areas. At any rate, the fanfold should not coincide with the demarkations since practice has shown that when the fanfold coincides with the transverse demarkations, especially where the feed pin receiving opening interrupts a demarkation, then depending upon the material of the ticket strip, the strip will pile up more or less at such fanfold and deform the feed pin receiving opening so that the feed pin receiving opening, as an instance the opening 33, will not properly cooperate with the feed pin, not infrequently causing the machine to jam.

In the embodiment shown in Fig. 9, the single width ticket there illustrated consists primarily of a strip 34 having ticket unit areas 35, 35 defined from one another, not only by the rectangular oblon opening 36 but also by the edge recesses 31 and 38.

It is obvious that various changes and modifications may be made to the details of construction without departing from the general spirit of the invention as set forth in the appended claim.

I claim:

A ticket strip having parallel stub areas defined from one another by a longitudinally extending weakened line nearer one longitudinal edge than the other to define a narrow and a broad stub area, and successive ticket unit areas defined by transversely extending demarkations intersecting said longitudinally extending weakened line, said demarkations being interrupted by pin receiving openings, one in each stub area, the openings in each stub area being in alinement with one another, with the openings in the narrow stub area being smaller and nearer to its ad- 5 6 jacent outer edge of the strip than the openings UNITED STATES PATENTS in the broad stub area.

Number Name Date BENJAMIN FREEDMAN' 978,052 Oehring Dec. 6, 1910 1 039 167 Meier et a1. Se t. 24 1912 REFERENCES CITED D 5 1,750,196 Scher May. 11, 1930 The following references are of record in the 0 3 9 Wright 10, 1935 file of this patent 2,121,865 Flood June 28, 1938 2,293,054 Freedman Aug. 18, 1942 

